In Greek mythology, Labdacus/ˈlæbdəkəs/ (Ancient Greek: Λάβδακος, Lábdakos) was the only son of Polydorus and a king of Thebes. Labdacus was a grandson of Thebes' founder, Cadmus. His mother was Nycteïs, daughter of Nycteus.
Greek mythology, Labdacus /ˈlæbdəkəs/ (Ancient Greek: Λάβδακος, Lábdakos) was the only son of Polydorus and a king of Thebes. Labdacus was a grandson of...
the Thracian king Tereus. Labdacus himself survived the war. However, following in the footsteps of Pentheus, King Labdacus opposed the cult of Dionysus...
Laius was the son of Labdacus. He was the father, by Jocasta, of Oedipus, who killed him. After the death of his father Labdacus, Laius was raised by...
Pentheus, and their son was Labdacus. However, Pentheus and Polydorus both died soon after, and Nycteus became regent for Labdacus. After Antiope was impregnated...
visiting fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in 1997. The Throne of Labdacus, one of Schnackenberg's six books of poetry, focuses on the myth of Oedipus...
of Atreus (one of the two principal heroic dynasties with the house of Labdacus) lies the problem of the devolution of power and of the mode of accession...
Prince Polydorus, son of the King Cadmus and goddess Harmonia, fathered Labdacus by his wife Nycteis. Polydorus, an Argive, son of Hippomedon and Euanippe...
the translation by Sir James George Frazer, Pandion fought a war with Labdacus, King of Thebes and married his daughter Procne to Tereus to secure and...
history of Athens. According to the Bibliotheca, Pandion fought a war with Labdacus, the king of Thebes, over boundaries, and married his daughter Procne to...
was the father of Taygeta, Europa, Polydorus, Cilix, Phoenix, Cadmus and Labdacus. Cillix bore two insignificant sons and Pygmalion who had a son named Paphos...
Thracian king who helped King Pandion 2 of Athens in his war against King Labdacus 1 of Thebes, and having received one of his daughters seduced the other"...
Poems Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 Gjertrud Schnackenberg The Throne of Labdacus Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband: A...
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